The Merchant of Venice (2004 film) Quotes

The Merchant of Venice (2004 film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . The Merchant of Venice ended in 1970.

It features Cary Brokaw as producer, Jocelyn Pook in charge of musical score, and Benoît Delhomme as head of cinematography.

The Merchant of Venice (2004 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Merchant of Venice (2004 film) is 131 minutes long. The Merchant of Venice (2004 film) is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.

The cast includes: Joseph Fiennes as Bassanio, Al Pacino as Shylock, John Sessions as Salerio, Allan Corduner as Tubal, Lynn Collins as Portia, Jeremy Irons as Antonio, Kris Marshall as Gratiano, and Zuleikha Robinson as Jessica.

The Merchant of Venice (2004 film) Quotes

Joseph Fiennes as Bassanio

• (Joseph Fiennes) "When I told you my state was nothing, I should then have told you that I was worse than nothing; for, indeed, I have engag'd myself to a dear friend, engag'd my friend to his mere enemy, to feed my means."

• (Joseph Fiennes) "So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament."

• (Joseph Fiennes) "Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth."
• (Lynn Collins) "Well then, confess, and live."
• (Joseph Fiennes) "'Confess' and 'love' had been the very sum of my confession."

• (Joseph Fiennes) "Why, I were best to cut my left hand off And swear I lost the ring defending it."

• (Joseph Fiennes) "Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice."

• (Joseph Fiennes) "Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence; And here choose I; joy be the consequence."

• (Joseph Fiennes) "For thy three thousand ducats here is six."
• (Al Pacino) "If every ducat in six thousand ducats were in six parts and every part a ducat, I would not draw them; I would have my bond."

Al Pacino as Shylock

• (Al Pacino) "He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew."

• (Al Pacino) "I am not bound to please thee with my answer."
• (Joseph Fiennes) "Do all men kill the things they do not love?"
• (Al Pacino) "Hates any man the thing he would not kill?"
• (Joseph Fiennes) "Every offence is not a hate at first."
• (Al Pacino) "What. wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?"

• (Al Pacino) "If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."

• (Al Pacino) "I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."

• (Al Pacino) "I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you."

Jeremy Irons as Antonio

• (Jeremy Irons) "Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death; And, when the tale is told, bid her be judge Whether Bassanio had not once a love."

• (Jeremy Irons) "These griefs and losses have so bated me, that I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh to-morrow to my bloody creditor. Pray God, Bassanio come to see me pay his debt, and then I care not."

Allan Corduner as Tubal

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Lynn Collins as Portia

• (Lynn Collins) "The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath."

John Sessions as Salerio

• (John Sessions) "Why, I am sure, if he forfeit thou wilt not take his flesh: what's that good for?"
• (Al Pacino) "To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge."

Kris Marshall as Gratiano

• (Kris Marshall) "What, are we cuckolds ere we have deserved it?"

Zuleikha Robinson as Jessica

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